Jan 14, 2008

An important part of shiftworker lifestyle training is fatigue countermeasures and understanding how to manipulate your alertness -- both to maintain safe performance when you need it and to be able to get to sleep when you can.

When it comes to using substances to control alertness, we tend to think right away of caffeine, and perhaps some controlled substances, to maintain alertness and sleeping pills or melatonin to induce sleep. But there are many foods which also have alertness-increasing 0r -decreasing effects that you should be aware of.

Foods the reduce alertnessThese foods have tryptophan or l-tryptophan and will help induce sleep.

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The National Shiftwork Information Center is not an advocacy group. Our mission is to provide information about shiftwork, for managers, shiftworkers, and their family members to improve health, safety, performance, and quality of life. Ed Coburn is the Executive Director of the National Shiftwork Information Center. Previously he was Managing Director and Publisher of Circadian Information, which publishes information on alertness and performance for round-the-clock operations.

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